Re: browsing text elements

Jeff,
How about using a one column, one row table with a pre tag inside, like:
<table border="0">
<tr>
<td align="middle" valign="top">
<pre><xsl:value-of select="text"></pre>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
???
Maybe, maybe not.
Matt MacKenzie
Jeff Royal wrote:
>
> I'm just getting my feet wet with XML not to mention HTML,
> can anyone help me with the following problem?
>
> I'm trying to display an XML text element using an XSL stylesheet
> (IE5). The results are almost right, but not quite.
> Here is the XML source:
>
> <item>
> <text>
> This block of text needs to be displayed by the
> browser exactly as it appears here (i.e. respecting
> all line breaks).
>
> Is this possible?
> </text>
> </item>
>
> I've used PRE in my stylesheet for displaying this block:
>
> <pre><xsl:value-of select="text"></pre>
>
> and the result displays:
>
> This block of text needs to be displayed by the
> browser exactly as it appears here (i.e. respecting
> all line breaks).
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Does anyone have any advice on how to display this either a) with the
> first line of text aligned with the rest of the block, or b) all lines
> left justified?
>
>
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